The average annual increase in the rice yield world record from 2011 to 2013 of 30.5% is 302% above, or just over four times the baseline annual average increase in yield of 8.7% per year documented from 2000 to 2013.
Grist.org, the Hindustan Times, and countless other outlets falsely inflated Yuan Longping’s previous 2011 rice yield record by 70%
The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. One of those variants is “miraculous”. That’s why a grist.org article from February 2013 said “Miracle grow: Indian farmers smash crop yield records without GMO”
Where the word “smash”, while lurid, and accurate, is only-general. Since sixty to seventy percent of readers only read the headlines, this hedging generality goes a long way toward “compartmentalizing” awareness of the exponential scope of the increase in crop yields that I’m documenting here.
Did you notice how the author carefully omitted the word “rice” from the headline? That’s an example of the propaganda technique known as “compartmentalization”.
The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. One of those variants is “astonished”. That’s why the article goes on top say “[Sumant] Kumar, a shy young farmer in Nalanda district of India’s poorest state Bihar, had — using only farmyard manure and without any herbicides — grown an astonishing 22.4 tonnes of rice on one hectare [~2.5 acres] of land. This was a world record and with rice the staple food of more than half the world’s population of seven billion, big news.”
The article goes on to say “It beat not just the 19.4 tonnes achieved by the “father of rice”, the Chinese agricultural scientist Yuan Longping, but the World Bank-funded scientists at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, and anything achieved by the biggest European and American seed and GM companies. And it was not just Sumant Kumar. Krishna, Nitish, Sanjay and Bijay, his friends and rivals in Darveshpura, all recorded over 17 tonnes, and many others in the villages around claimed to have more than doubled their usual yields.”
Wait, what? A China Daily article from September 2011 reads “Yuan Longping, China’s leading agricultural scientist, realized one of his 80th birthday wishes recently when his super grain brought yields of 13.9 tons of rice a hectare, setting a new world record for rice output. The rice breed, DH2525 (Y two superior No 2), produced a harvest of 13.9 tons a hectare during its trial planting in Longhui county in Hunan province, the provincial academy of agriculture announced at a news conference on Monday. Hybrid rice is produced by crossbreeding different varieties of rice. Yuan developed the first Chinese hybrid rice variety in 1974.”
We just learned that grist.org falsely inflated Yuan Longping’s 2011 record by 70%. I have just exposed at best the ineptitude and at worst the duplicity of grist.org by using what was known in the old days as “fact checking”. As a bonus, I’d note that the article was carried by countless other outlets without modification.
I had to do the math to learn that the rice yield world record of 22.4 tons, from 2013, is 61% higher than the previous record of 13.9 tons from 2011. That’s an average annual increase in yield of 30.5% per year from 2011 to 2013.
The rice yield world record from 2011 of 13.9 tons per hectare, was 15.8% higher than the previous record of 12 tons set in 2004. That’s an average annual increase in yield of 2.3% per year from 2004 to 2011.
There rice yield world record from 2004 was 12 tons per hectare, and was 14.2% higher than the previous record of 10.5 tons per hectare set in 2000. That’s an average annual increase in yield of 3.55% per year from 2000 to 2004.
The average annual increase in the rice yield world record from 2011 to 2013 was 747% higher than it was from 2000 to 2004.
The rice yield world record from 2013, of 22.4 tons per hectare, is 113% higher than a previous record of 10.5 tons per hectare set in 2000. The rice yield world record more than doubled from 2000 to 2013. That’s a baseline annual average increase in yield of 8.7% per year over each of those 13 years.
The average annual increase in the rice yield world record from 2011 to 2013 of 30.5% is 302% above, or just over four times the baseline annual average increase in yield of 8.7% per year documented from 2000 to 2013.
The first rule of politics is “deny, deny, deny”. That’s why a Hindustan Times article on the subject from February 2013 reads “Indian’s harvest claim ‘120% fake’, claims Chinese scientist”.
It’s particularly funny in that “120% fake” is not a very, er, scientific thing to say.
Did you notice how the author carefully omitted the words “rice”, “yield”, “world” and “record”? That’s an example of the propaganda technique known as “compartmentalization”.
The article goes on to say “It is ‘120 per cent fake’, Yuan Longping, who held the record earlier by growing 19.4 tonnes of rice in 2011”.
You can see how the false “19.4 tons” statistic is being put forward here in a different article, from a different nation.
It’s important to note that there is no mention of genetic modification in any of the articles on record rice yields from 2000, 2004 and 2011, but rather only of careful hybridization.
That exposes the "smash crop yield records without GMO” statement from the grist.org article’s headline as a careful bit of reverse psychology, attempting to chalk previous steadily increasing crop yields up to “the wonder of genetic modification”, which will “feed the world’s hungry”.
Jeff Miller, Pittsburgh, PA, September 24, 2021
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